(1067 quotes found)
“Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”
Thomas Jefferson
“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
Ralph W. Sockman
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much”
Ronald Reagan
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
Albert Einstein
“A man in debt is so far a slave.”
“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”
Nancy Friday
“The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks”
Helen Keller
